Call it whatever you want. I don't care if it's a so called niche or not. I enjoy it and it makes me money. I think mean reversion is descriptive enough. If you don't know what that is, it's not my problem.
Thanks.Interesting post. How many years of the 27 would you have been able to trade fulltime,little to no other income? If you care to share.
Don't mind at all. I was usually working odd jobs for the first 10 years. And up until a few years ago, I would be a seasonal driver for UPS just to take a break from the trading grind (a grind which sometimes involve not making much money). But honestly, after I quit drinking is when the ideas and money started to come. I had already been back testing for many years before I quit, but I was NOT a casual drinker. To this day I believe I could've been a full time trader and only a trader when I was just a few years in if I hadn't been drinking. So don't let my time frames discourage you. I wasted so much time because of that shit. Oddly enough, there was about a 4 year period in the mid to late 2000's when I was on a team who used automated mean reversion, and I did extremely well. But while most of us were long only, our programmer got caught being short a stock which was being bought out. I was in our branch managers office, and watching those losses pile up on his management machine was just a nightmare. That was our programmers last day of trading, and he took his program with him. Oh well. I'm still long only, just because I can't get the short side to back test well.
You have been trading for 27 years and only recently think that you have something with an edge. You deserve a medal for lasting so long lol.